Crawling Quote by Doppo Kunikida

“And there he was, dead. He had finally succumbed to the exhaustion, no longer could he tread the waters of the sea inside him,…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“He’d never liked the ocean, the sense of the unknown beneath his feet, that something hungry and full of teeth might be waiting to…

— Leigh Bardugo

“at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…”

— Anne Carson

“I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.”

— John Green

“The ocean knew where her sailor was. We have seen him, said the waves. He is sleeping with us. You will never kiss his…

— Francine Prose

“And so I wept my story into the ocean and the ocean received it.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.”

— Walt Whitman

“Somewhere deep in my mind, I knew he could be my new ocean.”

— Kitty Thomas

“Like a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he went over me, his devastating presence—dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on…

— Virginia Woolf

“His desire was as deep and boundless as the sea, but when the tide receded, the rocks of shame and guilt thrust up as…

— George R.R. Martin

“And then she fell, from standing, foot-fins together, straight into the wavelets, where she was now seal, and she flung herself down toward the…

— Margo Lanagan